Re: Replacing array_slice
| From: | Jesse Schalken | Date: | Tue, 17 Jul 2018 05:51:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Replacing array_slice | ||
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:
> And another:
$length is a length when it's a positive
> number, but
> it's an offset from the end when it's negative.
>
That's how substr() works, so it's at least consistent with that.
It makes a lot more sense if you think of it as
$array->drop($offset)->take($length), where both ->drop() and ->take() add
the array's length if the argument is negative.